The objective of the Social Investment and Local Development Project for Armenia is to improve the quality and use of and access to community and intercommunity infrastructure.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: the local construction and environment inspectorates and communities have been notified of upcoming activities; the public has been notified of the works through appropriate notification in the media and/or at publicly accessible sites (including the site of the works); waste collection and disposal pathways and sites will be identified for all major waste types expected from demolition and construction activities; mineral construction and demolition wastes will be separated from general refuse, organic, liquid and chemical wastes by on-site sorting and stored in appropriate containers; the approach to handling sanitary wastes and wastewater from building sites must be approved by the local authorities; before being discharged into receiving waters, effluents from individual wastewater systems must be treated in order to meet the minimal quality criteria set out by national guidelines on effluent quality and wastewater treatment; monitoring of new wastewater systems (before/after) will be carried out; construction vehicles and machinery will be washed only in designated areas where runoff will not pollute natural surface water bodies; and if the building is a designated historic structure, very close to such a structure, or located in a designated historic district, notification shall be made and approvals/permits be obtained from local authorities and all construction activities planned and carried out in line with local and national legislation.
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The development objective of Fourth Productive Safety Net Project for Ethiopia is to increase access to effective safety net and disaster risk management systems, and complementary livelihood and nutrition services for food insecure households in rural Ethiopia.
... See More + This project requires second additional financing to scale up the project activities in response to the prolonged drought in Ethiopia. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management Systems, aims to support the social protection and DRM systems which will include strengthening the targeting of the program, putting in place a national household registry, improving the management information system (MIS), early warning triggers and response mechanisms, and capacity development. 2) The second component, Productive Safety Net Transfers and Links to Livelihoods Services, has the following three subcomponents: (i) safety net transfers to chronically food insecure households and support to a scalable response mechanism for transitory needs; (ii) sustainable community assets and human capital investments; and (iii) enhanced access to complementary livelihoods services for client households through crop and livestock production, off-farm income-generating activities, and labor or employment linkages. 3) The third component, Institutional Capacity Building and Project Management Support, aims to support sustainable capacity development and institutional strengthening to implement the project.
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The development objective of the Social Investment and Local Development Trust Fund Project for Armenia is to improve capacities of municipalities in Southern Armenia to provide sustainable public infrastructure and services to their citizens.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: if the building is a designated historic structure, very close to such a structure, or located in a designated historic district, notification shall be made and approvals/permits be obtained from local authorities and all construction activities planned and carried out in line with local and national legislation; it shall be ensured that provisions are put in place so that artifacts or other possible ‘chance finds’ encountered in excavation or construction are noted and registered, responsible officials contacted, and works activities delayed or modified to account for such finds; A survey and an inventory shall be made of large trees in the vicinity of the construction activity, large trees shall be marked and cordoned off with fencing, their root system protected, and any damage to the trees avoided; adjacent wetlands and streams shall be protected from construction site run-off with appropriate erosion and sediment control feature to include by not limited to hay bales and silt fences; traffic management system and staff training, especially for site access and near-site heavy traffic. Provision of safe passages and crossings for pedestrians where construction traffic interferes; adjustment of working hours to local traffic patterns, e.g. avoiding major transport activities during rush hours or times of livestock movement; and ensuring safe and continuous access to office facilities, shops and residences during renovation activities, if the buildings stay open for the public.
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The Social Investment and Local Development (SILD) project will be the fourth World Bank-financed project implemented by Armenian Social Investment Fund (ASIF), an implementing agency with strong administrative capacity and technical expertise.
... See More + ASIF was created in 1996 and has successfully completed two IDA financed projects (ASIF I and II). It is currently implementing the ASIF III project, including three additional financings. ASIF generated a sound implementation record through 18 years of project implementation. Since its inception, ASIF has implemented over US$90 million of investments into local social and economic infrastructure through over 900 local infrastructure micro-projects. It has a solid foundation in local social infrastructure project management and has overseen some of the most cost-effective, efficient and high quality local social infrastructure projects in Armenia. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: structures will be valued at replacement cost based on construction type, materials cost, labor, transport/other construction costs. No deduction for depreciation, transaction costs will be applied. If PAP does not wish to relocate, partial impacts may be paid only for the affected portion of the building or repairs. In determining the replacement cost to be compensated to the PAP, depreciation of the asset and the value of salvage materials are not taken into account, nor is the value of benefits to be derived from the project deducted from the valuation of an affected asset. Where domestic law does not meet the standard of compensation at full replacement cost, WB policies, guidelines and technical specifications for compensation at replacement cost will be applied. Compensation for land, structures, business, fixed improvements and other temporary assets will be based on market valuation, productivity valuation, negotiated settlements, material and labor valuation, disposition of salvage materials and other fees paid. It should be noted that lack of title, license or permit is not a bar to compensation.
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The development objective of the Social Investment and Local Development Project for Armenia is to improve capacities of municipalities in Southern Armenia to provide sustainable public infrastructure and services to their citizens.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) land for land compensation with plots of equal value and productivity to the plots lost; (2) affected land and communal infrastructure will be restored to pre-project conditions; (3) cash compensation for affected land at full replacement cost free of taxes, registration, and transfer costs; (4) cash compensation for the period of business interruption, based on tax declaration or official minimum salary; (5) restoration of livelihoods must be to levels at least equivalent to those maintained at the time of dispossession, displacement, or restricted access; (6) provision of a cash grant of three months’ rent at the prevailing market rate in the area and will be assisted in identifying alternative accommodation; and (7) rehabilitation assistance package to be determined based on a cases by case analysis.
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Ratings for the Communal Services Development Fund Project (CSDFP) for Tajikistan were as follows: Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower performance was satisfactory.
... See More + Since the CSDFP and a very small additional financing for the environmental land management and rural livelihoods project (United States dollar (USD) 1.8 million) were the only fully grant financed International Development Association (IDA) operations approved in FY15 for Tajikistan, and all projects negotiated prior and subsequent to CSDFP were negotiated at a 45 percent grant per 55 percent credit allocation ratio, Bank management determined that the partial cancellation of the grant component for both operations and replacement with a partial credit was the only viable option in balancing the portfolio towards the overall 45 percent grant per 55 percent credit allocation ratio. The Government of Tajikistan was not amenable to this solution, as it did not want State Unitary Enterprise Khojagiyi Manziliyu Kommunali (KMK) to incur any further debt. Instead, the Minister of Finance (MoF) requested the full cancelation of the CSDF operation on June 20, 2015.
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The evolution of Costa Rica’s social sectors over the past decade has been dichotomous. On the one hand, economic growth has remained relatively high, however poverty and inequality have not declined (moreover, they have increased), and persistent employment challenges remain.
... See More + On the other hand, the country has continued experiences advances in many social indicators, such as pre-primary and tertiary enrollment rates, access to improved sanitation, and labor force participation, though not in others (secondary school completion, immunizations, employment). Higher economic growth and (to a lesser extent) revenues seem to have allowed a substantial increase in public social spending. Looking forward, the key challenges Costa Rica faces are related to continuing improving the quality and efficiency in the social sectors, while improving targeting to serve the most in need, in a tight and severe fiscal context. To expand coverage of excluded population, priority will have to be given to reallocations and improvements within the spending envelope for the social sectors to maximize impact. With a fiscal deficit of more than 6 percent of GDP, further expanding public social spending is no longer an option and budget cuts are looming. Improvements in public spending management and budget execution, including the need of institutional reform to consolidate programs and improve coordination among executing agencies is equally important. In a country that has long been the champion in expanding universal welfare state, sustainability concerns will imply that hard fiscal decisions would need to be made to increase the social returns of budget allocation.
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The objective of the Strengthening Social Protection and Inclusion System Project for Panama is to increase the efficiency of the social protection system and improve the income generation capacity of the poor and vulnerable.
... See More + There are three components to the project, the first component being strengthening and efficiency of social protection system. The objective of this component is to strengthen the capacity of the Government to improve the harmonization, transparency, accountability and follow up mechanisms of MIDES CCT programs. This component finances three sub-components aimed at: (i) improving social protection system instruments; (ii) enhancing the management tools of individual social programs; and (iii) strengthening the monitoring and evaluation capacity of MIDES. The second component is the MIDES territorial structure and direct family support. This component will support the strengthening of MIDES’ territorial structure to operationalize such activities as outreach and registration, management of non-compliance, transparency and accountability, and information collection processes including implementation of feedback mechanisms, among others. Finally, the third component is the productive inclusion services for the poor and vulnerable. This component seeks to complement the activities of CCT programs with support to investments in human capital that enhance income generating capacity. This component will institutionalize and scale up the productive and training activities for the poor and vulnerable population registered in the single registry.
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El Salvador's development over the past decade has been dichotomous. On the one hand, economic growth has remained persistently low, employment and labor force participation have barely increased, and progress on poverty reduction has slowed.
... See More + On the other hand, inequality has fallen, and shared prosperity improved together with advances in many social indicators, such as pre-primary enrollment rates, access to prenatal care, immunizations, and water and sanitation. The increase in social spending, which now accounts for 12.4 percent of GDP, together with an improvement in the quality of social spending, explain at least part of this dichotomy of redistributive and social gains despite low growth, a tight fiscal situation and generally low government revenues and spending. Looking forward, the key challenges El Salvador faces are related to continuing improving the quality and efficiency in the social sectors, while maintaining the overall level of social spending within an increasingly constrained fiscal environment, where fiscal constraints, low revenues, and the need to cut the deficit by 3 percent of GDP are significant elements, as well. Priority would have to be given to reallocations and improvements within the spending envelope for the social sectors to maximize impact. This document analyzes social spending for El Salvador for the education, health and social protection and labor sectors in depth and explores a series of policy options for El Salvador to reallocate social spending for more effective impacts, to enhance and reform social policies and social service delivery, and to improve the management of public spending and budget execution in the social sectors.
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The objective of the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project for Jamaica is to ensure that where land acquisition is unavoidable, all project affected persons (PAPs) will be compensated for their lost assets at replacement costs, and in the event of resettlement be provided with assistance to help them improve, or at least restore, their livelihoods and standards of living to pre-displacement levels.
... See More + Negative impacts include: loss of land acquisition, loss of assets, loss of income, loss of trees and crops, and loss of livelihood. Mitigation measures include: replacement housing sites or agricultural land will be located as near as possible to the land lost, and at an available site which is acceptable to the PAP; lack of formal title to assets lost (land/house/business) will not bar a PAP from being entitled to receive assistance to achieve the objective of this Policy Framework; land and other assets will only be taken into possession after compensation has been paid to the affected person, and relocation assistance shall likewise be provided before people are displaced; if compensation cannot be paid or deposited before the assets acquired are taken into possession (in cases where the owner cannot be found), interest will be paid at market rate on the amount awarded from the date of award till the date of payment; a very large proportion of the households in the urban slum areas are female headed, and care should be taken to ensure that they receive compensation and resettlement benefits in cases where the title-holder is an absent male. However, compensation and resettlement benefits to female headed households would not cancel claims on a property by the title holder; and if community members elect to voluntarily donate land/assets without compensation (only for community based sub-projects financed from ICDP), they must be fully informed about the project and its grievance redress arrangements ahead of the agreement, and it must be documented that this act is performed freely and voluntarily, without any coercion.
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The results matrix provides an overview and aggregated results of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) portfolio. Reading from left to right the Matrix lays out the planning hierarchy and links between the Afghan National Priority Programs (NPPs) and the ARTF portfolio.
... See More + Reading from right to left the Matrix provides the implementation progress and flow: from inputs (ARTF financing and projects) to milestones and outputs to outcomes and indicators. The ARTF Results Matrix is updated twice a year and made available at the ARTF website. Once a year it is included in the published ARTF scorecard under pillar two. The reported progress data relates to the latest available data provided by all the ARTF projects at the time of the update. Progress data for some of the milestones, outputs and outcome indicators might not change from one reporting period to another due to either a different data collection schedule or due to implementation pace of related activities.
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